The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-24
THE FEELING IN IRELAND.

Excitement That Only Needs . Few Leaders
to Make It Dangerous.
Special to the IndauaeoIis Journal.
LONDON June o. The effect Of the Queens
jubilee celebration upon Catholic Ireland has
been something akin to the result prod by
Haunting red flag in the face of an already
asperated bull The excitement aroused by the
impending passage and enforcement of the
coercion act has spread to all parts Of the coun-
try, and was intense and illconcealed. but the
rejoicings in London and throughout England
and Scotland have awakened slumbering pas
sions, and unleashed those which were only held
in check by the restraining influence of some
trusted lender, or by the absence of a provoca-
tive Already the murmurings of the people.
the portentous import OF which was we'll under
stood by the local authorities, have penetrated
the precincts OF Dublin Castle. whose official oc
cupants have heretofore been deaf to warnings.
and the feeling Of apprehension which has arisen
in the breasts of the underlinGs of the Irish
executive system is shared by their superiors
Hundreds of disturbances growing out Of causes
far removed from differences between landlord
and tenant are now reported where, within a
corresponding length of time, ten would have
been the maximum number few weeks ago;
and the attempts which were made in many
places by Orangemen and others to hold demon
strations commemorative of the jubilee have
brought into direct collision with tho authorities
men who have heretofore stood in relation TO
the police as conservators of the peace, and to
that extent allies of the government. Even
merchants, lawyers doctors and others whose
social, business and professional connections
have debarred them, through motives of policy
from giving expression to their feelings, now
find themselves impelled by the strong and fast
increasing tide of public evaporation to indulge
in outspoken denuneations of the crimes act,
and to inveigh against the pharisaical impu-
dence of the Queens henchmen in claiming for
her Majesty credit for gracious, generous and
humane deeds. Hundreds of signs indicating
the temper of the people can be seen with half
eye in any part of Ireland, and where, six
weeks ago. o great number of influen-
tial men could have been found who
would have raised their voices against
violence there now be met but few who
would attempt to dissuade the peasantry from
obeying the call of leader to armed strife.
Nor is there scarcity of leaders Mr. O'Brien,
Mr.. Dillon, Mr.. Davitt Mr.. Sexton, and many
others foremost in platform and parliamentary
agitation, may and very likely will be arrested
and confined in Jail before the coercion law has
been in force fortnight; but they are not the
demands. The captains of the men whose dis
position is at the point of sanguinary revolt are
among those who have been cast out of their
homes upon the roadside, and those sufferings
are identical with those of their followers-men
who have spent years in calculating the chances
of the success of an uprising, and, as time has
rolled on, finding themselves each year
with less to lose and more to gain,
have become reconcled to smaller chances than
would have satisfied them at the outset. OF
such men there are plenty. and Of guns there is
an abundance, despite the delusion of the Castle
authorities and the London government that
the Irish people almost wholly without
weapons. They are not, to be sure of the latest
and most improved pattern, but they still possess
the capacity to ''pink" landlord at long range
or wing bailf at hundred yards It needed
only the jubilee to stir the peasantry of Ireland
to action, and unless wise counsel and assur-
ances of ample compensating advantages are
speedily given to the inhabitants of that country
by those in whom they have full confidence. the
storm will break before the crimes act has been
in force week, if 1T does not come sooner.
United Ireland, William O'Brien's paper says:
'.Ireland is the only civilized country in the
world which did not share in the jubilee celebra-
ton. She stood sternly and sorrowfully aloof.
Irelands place ought to have been beside Eng
land at the throne Irish blood and brain helped
to build the empire Poverty misery and slave
~ are her reward. She shared Engand's labors
but she may rot share her triumphs. England's
joy is for fifty years of liberty, prosperity and
progress. The Irish grief and wrath are for fif-
ty years of misery, famine and opression. Eng
land is numbered by the struggles of a sullen
captive, when she might purchase by justice the
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